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Is reflex a Scrabble word?

Yes, reflex is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of reflex?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.Antonyms: etymon

2. (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.Examples: "The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼"rare

3. (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.Examples: "A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder."; "Yon gray is not the morning’s eye, ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow."; "On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face."

adj (English)

1. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.Examples: "A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex."; "An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex."; "If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex."Synonyms: re-entrant

2. (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.transitive

2. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).obsoletetransitive

3. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.obsoletetransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.Examples: "The ſpring is hindered by your ſmoothering hoſt, For neither rain can fall vpon the earth, Nor Sun reflexe his vertuous beames thereon. The ground is mantled with ſuch multitudes."obsoletetransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "reflex"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "reflex"?

Scrabble
16 points
R1
E1
F4
L1
E1
X8
Words With Friends
17 points
R1
E1
F4
L2
E1
X8

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